Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.